Michael Walsh Email & Phone Number

Livonia, Mi, Us

Metro Detroit, Michigan, United States

As the President of 313 Robotics, I lead a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainability and providing STEM education opportunities to underserved communities in Detroit. My role involves strategic planning, community outreach, and program development to ensure we deliver impactful and meaningful experiences to our participants.Under my leadership, 313 Robotics has successfully launched several initiatives aimed at empowering youth with the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in a technology-driven world. I oversee a team of passionate volunteers and mentors who share a common goal of making a positive difference through robotics and education.Key Achievements:Established partnerships with local schools, businesses, and community organizations to expand our reach and resources.Secured funding and sponsorships to support our programs and ensure their sustainability.Advocated for STEM education and sustainability at local and national levels, raising awareness and support for our mission.My commitment to 313 Robotics is driven by a belief in the transformative power of education and technology. I am dedicated to creating opportunities for all students to explore their potential and achieve their dreams.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Lead and mentor a Team of delivery leads Drive Strategic Vision of the Guaranteed Rate Joint Venture TeamCoach delivery teams in the best agile practicesFacilitate 1:1’s with team members to help drive their personal growth within Guaranteed RateDrive delivery time-lines by building agile processes that help the team be most efficient

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Greater Detroit Area

Greater Detroit Area

Greater Chicago Area

▪ Guide and manage the development and delivery of online software products▪ Manage multiple projects to ensure deadlines are met and tasks are completed in compliance with regulatory rules and internal guidelines.▪ Led project to redesign website Homepage based on user data▪ Led project to optimize mobile browser loan application▪ Work with cross functional teams to deliver new features of online software▪ Facilitate legal approval process of all designs for website▪ Implement optimizely to run A/B test▪ Facilitate weekly design review meetings with UX team to review design deliverables▪ Facilitate weekly sprint planning meetings

Greater Chicago Area

• Exemplary support to a team of 25 students in formulating and establishing strategies of a competent robot• Cooperation with internal team engineers to execute the designs of students

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for testing all aspects of amSTATZ bi-weekly releases• Created Test Scripts for all athlete features• Created smoke test for all personal trainer features• Communicated corporate quality standards across the project• Developed and delivered quality management and quality assurance training for all employees engaged in quality and performance monitoring• Ensured the performance and quality of services conform to established company and regulatory standards• Interacted with customers on quality issues plus resolution of any problems within process and final product acceptance• Performed Quality Assurance (QA) activities

Chicago Il

• Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between Development, and Business; to provide more transparency across the 2 departments; and to obtain great business value with short turnarounds• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for Development Team• Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments• Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings• Work with customer success team to resolve issues• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings• Worked with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements• Coordinated the work efforts of 5 person team for various projects. Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members

Greater Chicago Area

• Keen oversight to the EPAY Systems Biometric Time Clock system while writing all necessary test scripts and testing of software• Delivery of updates to all customers regarding release date and information on changes made in the release• Fulfillment of duties as the internal trainer of US-based an overseas staff for all new features and aspects of software releases• Active participation in the Priority Organization Team to identify the best features for quarterly release of time clock software, testing and upgrades of 3000 in field clocks• Management of the user acceptance testing for all releases while closely interfacing with clients to execute the release candidate on 10% of the clocks• Full responsibility in monitoring the entire RMAs for EPAY Systems sent back to the company as well as new devices• Demonstration of excellent performance in managing overseas QA resources to guarantee high quality of release with 15000 lines of software code per release on average

Chicago, Il

• Instruction to over 20 collegiate athletes in more than 6 hours of practice of sport water polo weekly

Greater Chicago Area

• Display of skills in training 25 high school student athletes in more than 10 hours of sport water polo practice every week• Coordination of practice schedules, pool time reservations, and tournament arrangements

North Brunswick, Nj

• Establishment and implementation of robot design of head researchers and development engineers• Close collaboration with machinist and mechanical engineers to design specialty mechanism for effective construction of robot

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bs, Electrical Engineering